A Widow for One Year
of John Irving (Goodreads Author)
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âOne night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemakingâit was coming from her parentsâ bedroom.âThis sentence opens John Irvingâs ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory characterâa âdifficultâ woman. By no means is she conventionally ânice,â but she will never be forgotten.Ruthâs story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet herâon Long Island, in the summer of 1958âRuth is only four.The second window into Ruthâs life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. Sheâs about to fall in love for the first time.Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.Source: john-irving.com
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 576 pages
- Publisher Ballantine Books
- Publication Date June 1st 2004
- First Publication 10/28/98
- Language English
- ISBN 9999999999999
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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